Real estate target allocations up but performance slows

Institutional investors around the world continued boosting their target allocations to real estate in 2017, according to a new survey, but at a slower pace and while reaping smaller returns on the asset class.

The average target real estate allocation increased to 10.1% in 2017, up from 9.9% in 2016, according to Hodes Weill & Associates and Cornell University’s fifth annual Institutional Real Estate Allocations Monitor.

In the past five years, institutional portfolios lifted their actual exposure to real estate to 9.1% invested from 8.5%, the survey revealed.

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